1979_01 The Daily Collegian January 1979 Reloaded

              Commentary
The DaJr, OaUegian
Student tours England during winter study
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Daily CoJVgun Staff Reports It wasn't until I got over there, that
I 'II be honest with you. I went to       | realized that forgetting about Fresno
London on the school's winter study      State was going to be a little more diff i-
program to get away from school, work       cult than I had anticipated,   especially
when, upon getting into my hotel room,
o relax from the fall
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I turned on the BBC radio and heard
something like
'This is Norman Baxter reporting for
BBCradio IV...*
ft made my day
I was determined to have a good
time, and, in spite of this indirect link
' to the college, I did
I don'tmind telling you that I took in
a lot of tvoical tourist attractions like
visiting Westminster Abbey, the Tower
of London, the House of Parliament,
Buckingham Palace and all of the rest
of that great stuff I even rode on a
double-decker bus on the top level
But descriptions of those places can
be found in any tour book of London, so
I shall attempt to deviate from writing
about the typical tourist sites, and instead, talk about the typical tourist rip-
off s and some social differences.
First off, never get into a taxi that
doesn't have the yellow light above the
front windshield lit-it means you end
up paying more than twice as much as
you should.
One night three of my friends and I
did just that and ended up paying about
$4.60 when we should ve paid about a
buck eighty Never again...we got wise
quick Or at least I thought so
If you loqk for a cab after midnight,
you may as well expect to pay a little bit
more just because they know you need
to get home and the last underground
tube goes out about 11 p.m
Also if there are five of you wanting a
ride in the cab at night, they often try
to get twice as much money out of you
by telling you that they are only
licensed for four people
Well, that's true,but somehow, they
never seem to bother mentioning that
in the daytime, only at night. If you
call their bluff, you can sometimes get
out of paying the extra charge
A terribly foolish thing to do in
England is to assume that salami is-
well, like it is in the States. Believe me.
it's not! Stupidly, I ordered a salami
jr first outing and ended
up eating salami that was, I would say,
at least SO percent pure lard. Cross.
While we were there, we managed to
hit some British discos. (I told you I was
determined to have a good time.)
Anyway, the cover charges are
priced a little bit above average compared to various discos I have found up
and down the California coast. Of the
four discos our group hit,'we paid about
$2 once and about $4 the rest of the
Being served at a disco was no problem as long as you looked over 18, butit
was a problem getting the bartender to
take your order-especially If they1
realized you were 'damned colonists'
as we were often referred to.
You'll probably never see closing
hours posted inside a disco, but if you
do. don't believe them. I found from
the ones I patronized, that London >
discos dose when they 'bloody well"
feel like it. If the owner figures he's
made enough money for the night,
he'll close up shop an hour early
As far as the musk In the discos.
well, it is half of our 60s songs and half
of the disco songs that we'd gotten so
terribly sick of in the States before we
left
Just so you know what I'm talking
about, 'YMCA' was on the top of the
charts the second week we were there.
Of course, the British have their own
style of music which you could probably
bet won't hit the States..
Their No 2 song on the charts that
same week was one entitled 'HifXie
With Your Rhythm Stick.' The title lr\
the cleanest part of the song. Somehow, I can't see the FCC allowing that
song on the air in the States.
In spite of all of these rip-offs to be
aware of, London is a fantastic place to
be in January. Just because they had
a snow blizzard right before we went
over and temperatures were rtormally
below o  degrees   Celsius and  very
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London tour in January: few tourists, lots of sales
wmdy, doesn't mean the weather was
had
Don' t let native Californians tell you
the weather was lousy. I'm a native
lllinoian and I thought the weather was
just like the old stomping
I've never been fo. London In the
summer, but I hear that the tourists
mobbing the place make it impossible
to see the sites and shop pleasurably.
3und
Our trip in January was perfect, not
only because there were few tourists,
but also because January is the month
the day we visited Stone-     that London (and all the surrounding
•  even my loyalty to my home     towns we visited) put everything on
suddenly vanished when I froze     sale to clear out.
 ...Welt, it was freezing        From the way I understand, people
come from all over Europe to shop in
England In January, and I can see why. I not onfy learned a lot about the
people and their way of life, but also
Pure wool scarves for about $5, pure about    the    British    communications
wool sweaters for $10 to $12, wool system, which was the real reason for
skirts for $15 and up, and cashmere my trip-
sweaters went for about $34 (the lowest
wefound).                                          - Yup, I ctxjld get infoartother holiday
I drank the best beer, scotch and I" Londor,i during the month of Janu-
foodl'veeverhadwblte'thWandsaw «Y. But If I went there to try and get
stxne fantastic plays, a ballet and an *vw»V.,rom .J**001 ^.T* ?* *"*
opera. And I met some really nice
people.           \              /    _,
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tured the eye of the producers of the
movie that is coming up. It will be
called 'Two Minks in a Cage,' and will
star Elke Sornmer and Suzanne
Pleshette, with Noel Black directing
and frilly Clark producing.
It s a big deal for Merced, and
Pivirotto says it will put the town on the
map "I have ten or fifteen people a
day ask me if I can get them in the
f-or him it means just another aspect
»i a many-sided job that keeps him
commuting between his Job and school
most of the week. But Pivirotto says he
can handle it.
'I'm a person that always has to be
nto lots of things; different business
ventures.   It  keeps  my interest  up.
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College has been and is a very Important part of his life, he added,
saying he feels'it's a very importanti
part of the learning stage.'
. job that can
help them in the future.'
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